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The Fabelmans
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth. From TMDB
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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The Fabelmans is a 2022 drama film, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano and Seth Rogen.
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60 of 215 · most liked firstCannot overstate how important this guy's work is to me. Just absolutely gutted. But! We will always have a large collection of some of the best film and TV ever made, and also his performance in The Fabelmans, which is a great last thing to have done.
positive · AI labelView post →One of the many things I love about Disclosure Day is that it's a complete refutation of the idea that there are two Steven Spielbergs, one the man who pleases the summer-blockbuster give-me-back-my-childhood fans, the other the Oscar guy. This is as personal a movie in its way as The Fabelmans.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today is a good a day to appreciate one of the late-career Spielberg classics, The Fabelmans. It's sort of "acoustic" movie from somebody who usually employs a full orchestra, but the filmmaking is brilliant, in a subtle way that whispers instead of shouting. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →If THE FABELMANS was just these last couple of scenes in the movie, a single short film about when Steven Spielberg met John Ford, it would probably be the best movie of Spielberg’s whole career.
positive · AI labelView post →“In an age of apparent magic…” In the same way that “Disclosure” is in part the movie you make after making “The Fabelmans”, “The Odyssey” feels like Nolan working through what “Oppenheimer” left on the table. A stunning study of the imperial boomerang rendered as an arrow.
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved The Fabelmans and West Side Story so much I will see any movie Spielberg makes, forever. But it feels like he keeps making movies that he’s convinced will spread the word that aliens exist, and instead, we keep responding by saying, what a fun summer movie! It’s heartbreaking
positive · AI labelView post →I was at the premiere of The Fabelmans and you'd best believe when Spielberg walked out on stage I was first to my feet clapping. I don't like every movie he's made and I don't see every one of them either but he has nothing to prove at this point and he's still throwing heat
positive · AI labelView post →“I won’t be anybody’s religion.” “Disclosure Day” is a step down from “West Side Story” and “The Fabelmans”, but is comfortably mid-tier Spielberg. A film about the death of the monoculture, the power of the image and the trauma of making “The Fabelmans.” I had a good time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw a press screening of The Fabelmans and yelled “Holy shit” when David Lynch showed up at the end as John Ford. One of my favorite experiences ever seeing a movie. Just felt absolute delight.
positive · AI labelView post →I watched The Fabelmans last night and his turn as John Ford is nothing short of perfect. The man was a visionary and a true artist and icon. We lost a real one.
positive · AI labelView post →There are few filmmakers who are as willing to strip themselves bare in their art as Spielberg. You just have to know how to look at it. It's not terribly difficult. I will say that THE FABELMANS made it a lot easier - that movie is Spielberg's nude portrait.
positive · AI labelView post →In many ways The Fabelmans is a personal film for director/actor Steven Spielberg
neutral · AI labelView post →Was just reminded of the deranged faux controversy where Seth Rogen was talking about how weird it was that all the kid actors in The Fabelmans loved Superbad and joked “I guess no one’s made a good high school movie since” and there were clickbait headlines about how he disrespected Booksmart
neutral · AI labelView post →Between this and The Fabelmans, Spielberg is popping an exhilarating, stunt-choreographed wheelie on Tarantino's theory that elderly directors can't make great movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Having rewatched THE FABELMANS last night…awful that this movie didn’t win (more) awards in 2023, at the Oscars where it picked up zero statues & elsewhere. I know I really wanted Spielberg as our NYFCC Best Director, but well… A timeless classic in every sense of the phrase.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching The Fabelmans again recently, it acts as the codebook for understanding the 70s movie brats, particularly Lucas and Spielberg, that their films are mainly about the wonder of cinema itself. Which arguably is exactly what was needed at the time.
positive · AI labelView post →Choose one film from each of your 30 favorite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. #Filmsky 🎥 #MovieSky 🎬📽 1/30 THE FABELMANS (2022) dir. Steven Spielberg
neutral · AI labelView post →THE FABELMANS is an easy enough answer, not because it's right there (it is) but because it's a great Spielberg film (it is)
positive · AI labelView post →We got @notoriouslightning.bsky.social of @hitfactorypod.bsky.social on the pod to talk The Fabelmans, a movie about how making movies basically ruined Steven Spielberg’s life, but it's also the only way he knows how to process everything bad that's ever happened to him. LINK BELOW
neutral · AI labelView post →Has anyone else seen the Guy Pearce and Kylie film Swinging Safari? Amazed at how much like Spielberg's The Fabelmans it is (young kid making stunt filled films in Super8 while families tear themselves apart) just set in 70s sex party Ramsay St.
neutral · AI labelView post →DISCLOSURE DAY is a very strange, deeply anachronistic film. Not a great Spielberg IMO, but a fascinating companion piece to the Fabelmans all the same. Wildly psychobiographical. Spielberg's unshakeable faith in the primacy of the image barely addresses its treachery in the post-truth era.
neutral · AI labelView post →SENTIMENTAL VALUE: Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård are exceptional in Joachim Trier’s best film yet and the best of the fest thus far. A film that's itself about filmmaking, it's Trier's THE FABELMANS. It completely bowled me over 📽️ My #Cannes2025 review: www.thewrap.com/sentimental-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm generally pro on THE FABELMANS —I find it kind of messy as a film (the ending is a great scene from what feels like a different movie), but I very much did not expect Steven Spielberg's autobiopic to have its biggest reference points be Antonioni's BLOW UP and Leni Riefenstahl's OLYMPIA.
neutral · AI labelView post →Delightful, funny and smart conversation about this movie and the Fabelmans. I really love this conversation @blankcheck.bsky.social @davidsimms.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
neutral · AI labelView post →I love The Fabelmans, and this is my favorite shot from it, in a film full of gorgeous imagery. A beautiful encapsulation. That’s what it’s all about.
positive · AI labelView post →In retrospect I respect the ending of The Fabelmans even more now since he cast David Lynch as John Ford in a scene preceded by a character asking Sammy “Do you want to meet the greatest film director who ever lived?”
positive · AI labelView post →I'm leaving this up for the weekend but deactivating again come Monday, just want people to watch this movie if you like movies and love art, please watch The Fabelmans.
positive · AI labelView post →First movie of the year is a request from Jene, THE FABELMANS.
neutral · AI labelView post →Paul Dano was so damned good in The Fabelmans. Everyone in that movie was.
positive · AI labelView post →"When I see people smoking in films, if they’re not smokers, it makes you puke. It makes you sick. Because they just don’t do it right." My full interview with David Lynch from November 2023, discussing The Fabelmans, John Ford, Cheetos, smoking and filmmaking is now online.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film Twitter is where media literacy goes to die. Cause what do you mean Spielberg didn't make a movie about his parents divorce until The Fabelmans? 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →y’know, The Fabelmans is in a lot of ways a movie for the present, about how we process reality as narrative, and what it means to accept life’s nasty contradictions
positive · AI labelView post →Heart caught hard in my throat during one particular scene involving (essentially) a movie set and a childhood memory. What, you thought THE FABELMANS was the last word on Spielberg's trauma bond to the moving image?
positive · AI labelView post →CORRECTION: My favorite Spielberg movie is actually the last two scenes of THE FABELMANS. (Three, if you count the final shot separately.) Not the rest of THE FABELMANS, dear god no, but the John Ford segment is a perfect short film (with a completely unnecessary, over two-hour prelude).
neutral · AI labelView post →Calling The Fabelmans an "acoustic" Spielberg movie is freaking brilliant. Kudos, Matt.
neutral · AI labelView post →A Woman Under the Influence has gotta be the best Mother’s Day movie and it’s not even close but here are some other Dunson-certified selections for those who want to recognize the day with cinema: Night of the Hunter 28 Years Later Monster-in-Law Mary Poppins ET / AI / The Fabelmans
neutral · AI labelView post →The Fabelmans is on TV tomorrow night. It's a wonderful film. Set your videos.
positive · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky Someone at the theatre in a movie Day 9️⃣: The Fabelmans (2022) A coming-of-age drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Fabelmans. So basically, his most recent film.
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of The Fabelmans. It's not a recent flick but I just wanna share my review – I finished it minutes ago. The 1st 20 min are so boring. Here are what spurred me to finish it. 1. Spielberg directed it. 2. It was loosely based on his childhood. The post, Bridge of spies and Saving Private Ryan's opening are 👍 so I hoped The Fabelmans was 👍 too. It was entertaining but not great. OK plot. 👍 acting. I can write about 3 paragraphs re the top cast's acting but I don't wanna make this…
neutral · AI labelView post →I was amused to learn that, while he was trying to make the autobiographical movie that became The Fabelmans his entire career, his earliest attempt in the late 70s was a Bad News Bears esque/proto-Good Boys comedy
neutral · AI labelView post →There's so many good films that came out in the last 10 years that are to this day hard to find on streaming because they don't fit into the Netflix, Hulu, or Disney+ model of "shut your brain off and shut the fuck up about the economy" - Parasite - I, Tonya - Get Out - BlacKkKlansman - **Sorry to Bother You** (in bold because this is one of the most important films of the last 10 years, and no one fucking talks about it) - David Byrne's American Utopia (yes, I'm putting two Spike Lee joints…
neutral · AI labelView post →A perfect first film to inspire 2025: Spielberg's warm, witty origin story THE FABELMANS (2022), co-written with Tony Kushner. Two particular pleasures: Judd Hirsch (who also starred with Michelle Williams in Kelly Reichardt's SHOWING UP) as lion tamer Uncle Boris, and David Lynch as John Ford.
positive · AI labelView post →just threw Minority Report on at work and no doubt this has been remarked upon numerous times by now since The Fabelmans but the opening sequence involves Tom Cruise playing a film back and forth to increasing mania crosscut with a man about to go into a murderous rage for getting cucked
neutral · AI labelView post →Surprising myself with this take but The Fabelmans could be my favorite Spielberg film. Sammy presenting his school trip film to his high school class, perhaps my favorite sequence. Absolutely fraught dynamic in depicting peers.
positive · AI labelView post →Just finished THE FABELMANS. It’s the breath of fresh air movies need. I love eccentric John Ford at the end, the last shot horizon joke, and the humanization of larger than life people: Ford, Spielberg, and Sammie’s parents. Fantastic movie!
positive · AI labelView post →Now rewatching The Fabelmans, starring David Lynch as The Main Character Of The Film. I enjoyed this movie so much that I bought the Blu-ray shortly after it came out and then put it on my shelf and didn't open it for three years #Filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →The Fabelmans: imagine someone made a movie about their preternatural talent for filmmaking, and how that talent (1) cataclysmically ruins his family's life and (2) is analogous for the way the 21st century has become all about digesting and warping our reality through the veil of image creation.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wrote about David Lynch, THE FABELMANS, and Cheetos. www.slashfilm.com/1764235/davi...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s not his movie, but in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans as John Ford, Lynch created the ultimate coda.
neutral · AI labelView post →It says something terrible about my attention span that I consider sitting through an entire movie to be a healing, meditative experience, but I just watched The Fabelmans for the first time and wow my brain feels excellent.
positive · AI labelView post →I think even the maker didn’t know what he was saying. That’s pure art. A yearning for meaning in a film about a yearning for meaning. And in conjunction with The Fabelmans, it all just opens up. It’s magical. Existential. I described it recently as Powell and Pressburger’s 2001. It is.
neutral · AI labelView post →been over a year since I saw The Fabelmans and, while I don't think of *most* of the movie much, I think about Lynch's cameo as John Ford at least once a day. There's some cinema for you
positive · AI labelView post →The Fabelmans (2022) so my understanding is that Steven Spielberg made a career of directing films that are actually about his parent’s divorce until he just straight up made this film that’s about his parent’s divorce.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished my rewatch of Spielberg (in release order). I have an even greater appreciation of his work and I already thought he was… Well, he’s Spielberg. It’s only fitting to close this out with the film that provided a lens that deepens all of his works: THE FABELMANS. boxd.it/HDfga
positive · AI labelView post →Color study from the movie The Fabelmans. Getting back to the study grind ✨
neutral · AI labelView post →I believe this was David Lynch's last film appearance—as John Ford in the Fabelmans. I love this so much. As much as I disliked the entire rest of this lousy film. #DavidLynch youtu.be/POgWODZyUGQ?...
negative · AI labelView post →The Fabelmans (2022) – truly a unique story, close to my heart. This extraordinary film is about the 7th art, about family, about adolescence, and last but not least, about following a dream. A magical film, a must-see 🎥💜 #movielovers #movie #thefabelmans
positive · AI labelView post →The Fabelmans (2022) #zombiesteve52 #filmsky 2/52 This week we watch a Golden Globe nominated movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Last4Watched are all over the place in terms of quality and content. Enjoyed READY OR NOT 2 more than expected while WITCHBOARD feels beneath Chuck Russell's talents. Spielberg sucked me in with THE FABELMANS while RAISING CAIN made me think good DePalma films are an accident. #FilmSky #Letterboxd
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